Canoeing the
King Street Dump
on the
West Branch of the Housatonic River
May 2007
On May 24, 2007 we (Carolyn Sibner, Housatonic Valley Association; Jenny Hersch, Housatonic River Museum; and Jane Winn, BEAT) canoed the West Branch of the Housatonic River from the confluence of Pecks Brook (from Onota Lake) and the West Branch (from Pontoosuc Lake) to the railroad bridge just above the Mill Street Dam. Here is a gallery of pictures from that day.
King Street Dump area - traffic barrels along the side of the channel.
Carolyn Sibner from the Housatonic Valley Association checks out the beaver lodge.
Several goose eggs were in a nest on the beaver lodge.
Carolyn approaching the small beaver dam on the more easterly channel (closer to King Street.)
...and she made it over the beaver dam safely.
Farther down stream - Riverview Apartments as viewed from the river near West Street in Pittsfield.
Near our take-out point. The river passes under the railroad tracks. You can see the train over the river.
Careful - just downstream of the railroad is Mill Street dam!
